From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V4 #163 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Tuesday, August 10 1999 Volume 04 : Number 163 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Watch out, a newbie [JAZCAT99@aol.com] Spirit of Radio (was Watch out, a newbie) [Leslie Brown ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 09:19:06 EDT From: JAZCAT99@aol.com Subject: Re: Watch out, a newbie Nuff said! Here in Richmond, VA we have 6 "oldies" stations and the rest country or rock. The only jazz station we had switched to a 70s format months ago. I don't miss that station as it was Kenny G every hour. NPR has some archive jazz show for a few hours a week and that's it. The new talk is about low power radio service to open 3 to 58 new slots on the FM dial.(FCC reference "MM Docket 99-95) Perhaps this will bring about the changes we seek in programing. The web address is: http://members.aol.com/Wrfr. VIVA BASIA! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 10:17:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Leslie Brown Subject: Spirit of Radio (was Watch out, a newbie) > I finally gave up on my city's "contemporary jazz" > station when most of the > artists they played were clearly classified as top > 40 pop or R&B artists. Ugh. Same out here. Talk about a broad categorization of jazz! No way in hell is Mariah Carey even close, sorry. :) > It's like, at least give us the *illusion* that > you're something different. No kidding...sheesh. > listening to my CDs has made her see just how bad > her favorite radio station > has become. Makes me wanna holler! > that, for the next two or three years that I > listened to "The Oasis," > everytime they said they were going to play Basia, I > kept thinking, "Maybe > it'll be TSI!" But it was always "Cruising for > Bruising" or "Time and Tide." > Needless to say, Basia on Broadway never got played > either. No one knew it existed. :( I wish these guys would figure out that she does have more than two songs (oh wait, I'm forgetting 'New Day For You." Oh yeah, and "Promises" LOL) > I wish they'd let the DJs program their own music. > We'd get better variety. There was a commercial station out here a few years ago that was like that...which was sweet as hell because one DJ was a Basia fan who went in deep on the albums and played some Matt Bianco cuts (!!!) R.I.P.! > Of course, this assumes the stations are capable of > hiring people with > taste. You should here the sound bites they play on the station here (Detroit) of people gushing about the so-called smooth jazz they hear on 98.7. Makes a great laxative. > I hope that's true of the general public. It > certainly is for most of us! Word! - --Leslie and echoes...with the sound... of salesmen! _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 10:18:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Leslie Brown Subject: Re: Just wondering? > I had a laugh too - got the mental picture too!! > Great description > Leslie. :D Why thank you! :) No shortage of balding Beemer men to shock out here, that's for sure! - --Leslie _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V4 #163 ***************************